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No. 81,635. Patented Sept. 1, 1868.

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J. W. HILTON AND R. W. GREEN, OF BRADFORD, PENNSYLVANIA.

Letters Patent No. 81,635, dategl September 1, 1868.

IMPROVEMENT IN AXES.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that we, J. W. HILTON and R. W. GItEEN, of Bradford, in the county of McKean, and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new 5nd useful Improvement in Axes; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a side view of our improved axe.

Figure 2 is an end view of the same.

Figure 3 is a detail view of a modification of our feature of improvement.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts.

The object of this invention is to provide an axe with a separate-and removable cutting-edge, whereby the latter may be readily removed, when rendered unfit for further use, from wear or otherwise, and a new cuttingcdge substituted therefor, thus saving the poll or main body of the axe.

In the drawings, A is the poll, which is formed with a tapered tongue or tenon, a, (shown dotted in figs. 1 and 2,) having shoulders I). p

The steel edge, B, is formed with a corresponding recess, to receive the tenoned part of the poll. Dowels ("Z cl pass through the two parts, and thus hold them securely together.

In practice, these dowels may be replaced by screws, if desirable.-

In figs. 1 aud 2, the tcnon is formed with a shoulder on all of its sides, the recess or cavity of the edge being correspondingly enclosed, thus forming a tapering mortise.

In fig. 3, a modification of the same feature is shown, where the tcnon has no lateral shoulders, being flush with the breadth of the axe.

The recess in the part B is merely a V-shapcd slot or channel, extending through the entire breadth of the said part, as shown.

The two parts are constructed to fit snugly together, and when once so fitted are as solid as an axe formed of a welded edge.

Having thus described our invention, we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent As a new article of manufacture, a chopping-axe, having a removable edge, when the two parts A and B, composing said axe, are construct-ed substantially as and for the purpose shown and described, and secured together by removable dowels tZ (Z, all as set forth.

J. W. HILTON, R. W. GREEN.

Witnesses:

E. B. \Yixoa'rn. G. I. FRANK. 

